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Duolingo Update

Breaches
1
1 verified
Records Exposed
2.7M
Total across all breaches
Data Types Leaked
4
0 high risk
Latest Breach
2023
Duolingo

Breach History

Duolingo
Jan 2023Medium
2.7M
Records exposed
4
Data types leaked
Verified
Status

In August 2023, 2.6M records of data scraped from Duolingo were broadly distributed on a popular hacking forum. Obtained by enumerating a vulnerable API, the data had earlier appeared for sale in January 2023 and contained email addresses, names, the languages being learned, XP (experience points), and other data related to learning progress on Duolingo. Whilst some of the data attributes are intentionally public, the ability to map private email addresses to them presents an ongoing risk to user privacy.

Exposed Data Types
Email addressesNamesSpoken languagesUsernames
Incident Status
Data breachYes
Data brokerNo
Policy contradictionsNo
Exposed Data Types
Email addressesLow risk
NamesLow risk
Spoken languagesLow risk
UsernamesLow risk